What are the advantages of installing cogeneration units?

• high efficiency of electrical and thermal energy production (80 to 95%)
• reduction in the price of power electricity and heat
• reduced reserved energy input of a building or complex
• minimisation of payments associated with distribution of energy
• financial relief of natural gas environmental tax
• utilisation of cogeneration units as an emergency source of electricity
• possibility to produce cold (so-called tri-generation)
• environmentally-friendly method of energy production

Where is it possible to use cogeneration units?

• hospitals
• schools, refectories
• hotels
• industrial facilities
• residential complexes
• amusement, sports and retail centres

The company České teplo offers:

• assessment of possibilities for the application of cogeneration units in the client's energy system
• a technical-economic analysis assessing the investment return
• complex engineering
• construction and operation of a system of cogeneration units

Cogeneration units are devices used for the combined production of electricity and heat, and possibly of cooling (so called tri-generation). The basic construction elements are most often a combustion engine propelling a generator and a system of heat exchangers that are used to distribute and subsequently utilise the waste heat produced during the production of electricity. Cogeneration units are mostly fuelled by natural gas. Recently, other kinds of fuel have also been used, such as biogas, landfill gas, etc. Produced electricity is consumed in a building or complex (island operation) or is supplied to the public distribution system. In this case, we talk about so-called parallel operation of cogeneration units. Produced heat is most often used for heating buildings, for the preparation of hot utility water, for heating swimming pools, for technological purposes, etc.